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discussed in biography

Ramazzini wrote
De Morbis Artificum Diatriba (1760;
Diseases of Workers), the first comprehensive work on occupational diseases, outlining the health hazards of irritating chemicals, dust, metals, and other abrasive agents encountered by workers in 52 occupations. He served as professor of medicine at the University of Padua from 1700 until his death.

occupational disease

...disorders was written by Bernardino Ramazzini, a professor of medicine first at the University of Modena and later at the University of Padua. His
De Morbis Artificum Diatriba (1700;
Diseases of Workers) contains descriptions of the diseases associated with 54 different occupations, from the mercury poisoning of Venetian mirror makers to the diseases afflicting learned men....

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